Sentences with phrase «further hedging its bets»

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Nearly four - and - a-half years after Bill Ackman bet $ 1 billion that Herbalife stock would fall — a losing bet so far for the hedge fund manager — the nutrition products company is approaching what many investors see as a watershed moment, the final test that will determine which side was right.

Hedge fund manager William Ackman, who called Herbalife a pyramid scheme, placed a $ 1 billion short bet but so far has suffered some losses as the stock climbed.

That makes it a seemingly small adversary, given the battle Herbalife is waging against hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who has gone so far as to say that Herbalife is a «criminal organization» in his $ 1 billion short bet against it.

As usual, the Fed chair hedged her bets somewhat, saying she wanted to see further improvement in labor market conditions and greater confidence that inflation would move back up to 2 % in the next few years, but, based on current trends, it seems that small, incremental hikes in base interest rates are looming on the horizon.

In our Hedge Fund Wisdom premium newsletter, we outlined the investment thesis on AIG as Berkowitz has pressed his bet there and it is by far his largest position at over 20 % of his portfolio.

Of course, formal policy proposals and campaign platforms are still far in the future, so most big donors are hedging their bets — contributing to multiple candidates or hanging back entirely.

So far NASA is hedging its bets, spreading out money to a variety of companies, each of which is creating a different kind of vehicle or program.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Howard, This was written before the announcement when it was far from clear exactly what was forthcoming, hence a somewhat hedging bet!

My working theory is that we should be hedging our bets, not going too far in the direction in which data not accounting for the human element points us.

TWO: Whether we have the 1000 year trend right is far less certain (& one reason why I hedge my bets on whether there were any periods in Medieval times that might have been «warm», to the irritation of my co-authors!

Whether we have the 1000 year trend right is far less certain (& one reason why I hedge my bets on whether there were any periods in Medieval times that might have been «warm», to the irritation of my co-authors!).

This means that while one Atlanta insurance provider may view you or your situation as very risky and charge an inflated rate to hedge their bets, a competing insurance provider may view you as less risky and give you quotes (and eventually rates) that are far more affordable.